Kinect Survey: 75per cent Of 360 Owners Won't Buy
Kinect's measure of appeal was partially revealed today in a NowGamer ad-hoc survey... A NowGamer survey, conducted this morning among 100 Xbox 360 owners via Twitter, showed that only one in four planned to buy the peripheral subsequent to Microsoft’s announcement on pricing.
Now Gamer

Google matches Mozilla with $3,133 bug bounty
Internet search outfit Google has upped its maximum reward for a security bug on Chrome to $3,133, only nearly a week after Mozilla did a similar thing by increasing its own bounty to up to $3,000.  The Chromium Security Reward programme has been up for around six months and Google said it had been a "clear success", as people aren't going to go rooting around for bugs in their spare time and bother reporting them without some sort of monetary reward.
The Inquirer

Knives out for Nokia CEO
Reuters has reported that headhunters are actively searching for a replacement for current CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo. He's been getting a ton of stick for Nokia's miserable performance, and its inability to respond to the challenge posed by Apple, Google and RIM.
Mobile Entertainment

Amazon's ebook milestone: digital sales outstrip hardbacks for first time in US
It is an announcement that will provoke horror among those who can think of nothing better than spending an afternoon rummaging around a musty old bookshop. In what could be a watershed for the publishing industry, Amazon said sales of digital books have outstripped US sales of hardbacks on its website for the first time.
The Guardian

Facebook to welcome its 500 millionth user today
Facebook, the social networking phenomenon started in a Harvard dorm six years ago, could have 500 million members as early as today.  Mark Zuckerberg, the group's 26-year-old chief executive, is expected to announce the news in an interview with Diane Sawyer on ABC World News in the US this evening.
The Independent

Google launches new image search
Google Image Search is to be changed to include live enlargement of images as users hover their mouse over them, a denser layour of images of varying sizes and better navigation. The page displayed when users click on an image will also be updated to take users to the picture’s original location more quickly. Writing on the company blog, Google Images’s product manager Nate Smith also announced that some adverts would now be allowed to include thumbnail pictures when running in Image Search.
The Telegraph

Foursquare hits 100 million 'check-ins'
The milestone was announced by Tristan Walker, who runs business development for the company, on Twitter. Foursquare allows its users to share their location with friends by 'checking-in' at bars, restaurants, clubs and even offices and railway stations. Since February 2010, the site has been registering more than one million 'check-ins' a week.
The Telegraph

Toshiba Australia boss waves tablet around
And now Toshiba's in on the act. Yes, the Japanese laptop pioneer has an iPad-style tablet in the works, set to debut in a few months' time and running Android and/or Windows 7. Toshiba this week took the wraps off its new Portégé R700 skinny laptop, its Libretto M100 dual-screen netbook and the AC100 Arm-based 'smartbook' in Australia.
Reg Hardware

GSMA Calls for Tax Cuts to Stimulate Mobile Broadband Uptake
A Telecom Advisory Services (TAS) report, delivered in conjunction with the GSM Association (GSMA), reveals how mobile sector-specific taxation is impacting on the development and deployment of mobile broadband in developing countries. The study finds that a reduction in special taxes applied to the telecommunications sectors in countries with different taxation approaches, such as Brazil, Mexico, Bangladesh and S. Africa, will translate into higher mobile broadband service adoption and more wealth creation, reflected in additional GDP growth.
Mobile Marketing Magazine

Yahoo shares fall on disappointing profit figures 
Yahoo's profits were hit by a sudden cut-back in advertising Yahoo's profits rose by more than 50per cent in the second quarter, but net revenues fell short of analysts' estimates and its share price fell by more than  four per cent. Yahoo said its revenue in the three months ending 30 June was $1.6bn (£1.05bn), compared with $1.57bn in the same quarter last year.
BBC